Tuesday Evening, December 10, 1957. High School Students Take Year of Math WASHINGTON (UP) — Most American high school students take one year of mathematics. This required course is usually grade. It may which is a taught in the ninth be "genera! math, review of grade school arithmetic with a little algebra and geometry thrown in, or it may he first-year algebra. Many high schools require a second year of math for students preparing for college. This may be plane geometry in the !0th grade, which about 40 per cent of our students take; or intermediate alge- bra in the llth grade, which 32 per cent take. One American student out of require one year of "general sci- science studies in the fourth ence" for.graduation. This usually is taught in the ninth grade and includes a smattering of all the natural sciences from-astronomy to zoology. Most of our high schools offer— ant 1 some require—one or more additional courses in laboratory science: The best schools offer biofagy in the loth grade, chemis- seven goes on to study advanced|' rv in the lllh, physics in the 12th. mathematics—solid geometry and A survey by the U.S. Office of trigonometry—in. the 12th grace. Educal '0" last year showed that Russian students are introduced! 73 per cent of America's 10th to algebra and geometry in Lhei graders were takin g b'°!°gy: 35 six.Ui grade. They get one course per cent of the nth § rac!ers were in each every year until they ying chcm 'st''y; and 24 per graduate from high school at the F cnt , of the seniors were enrolled completion of the 10th grade. m P 1 ^ 3105 . During their last two years, they • Russian students begin their also study trigonometry for r.wo : ~~ '• — classroom hours a week. j American high school generally I grade, with two hours of biology instruction a week. They continue to study biology through the ninth grade, a total of five years. No Choice in Russia . Physics is added in the sixth grade and is studied for five years. The Soviet student takes four years of chemistry, starting in the seventh grade, and one year of astronomy, in the 10th grade. Some U S. high schools offer four years of foreign .language instruction and require at least two years for a student taking a college preparatory cour.se. But the majority do not require any foreign language study, and many do not even offer it. Russian students ge; five years of foreign language instruction. About 40 per cent, study English. Soviet children get separate courses in history and geography each year from the fourth grade on. A Russian student has no choice whatever in the subjects he studies. The government lays down one hard-and-fast curriculum for all schools and all students. 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